Thread

 

I feel as though I am the thread that binds them

To carry them through life but to also let them go free when they

Are ready

 

What if one day I were cut free and one of them falls

Down

            Down

                        Down

 

No one to protect them, to keep them safe to shield them

Torn

            Forsaken

                        Lost

 

I weep at the thought of them leaving

But know that it will be me

 

For I will leave soon

            Far away

                                    Never to return

                                                            Lost from the nest

 

What shall I do?

For I am the thread that binds them